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245 hadith found in Sunan Abi Dawud
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
‘Ali burned some people who retreated from Islam. When Ibn ‘Abbas was informed of it, he said: If it had been I, I would not have burned them, for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do not inflict Allah’s punishment...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah should not be lawfully shed but only for one of three reasons: married fornicator, soul for soul,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) Said: The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle should not lawfully be shed except only for one of three reasons: a...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) while two men who were Ash’ arIs were with me. One of them was on my right and the other on my left side. Bothe of them asked him for employment. The prophet (ﷺ)...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
AbuMusa said: Mu'adh came to me when I was in the Yemen. A man who was Jew embraced Islam and then retreated from Islam. When Mu'adh came, he said: I will not come down from my mount until he is...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
A man who turned back from Islam was brought to Abu Musa. He invited him to repent for twenty days or about so. Muadh then came and invited him (to embrace Islam) but he refused. So he was beheaded.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
The tradition mention above has also been transmitted by Abu Musa through a different chain if narrators. But there is no mention of demand of repentance.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Abdullah ibn AbuSarh used to write (the revelation) for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Satan made him slip, and he joined the infidels. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to kill him on the day of Conquest (of Mecca). Uthman...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
On the day of the conquest of Mecca, Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn AbuSarh hid himself with Uthman ibn Affan. He brought him and made him stand before the Prophet (ﷺ), and said: Accept the allegiance of Abdullah, Messenger of Allah!...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
When a slave runs away and reverts to polytheism, he may lawfully be killed.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
A blind man had a slave-mother who used to abuse the Prophet (ﷺ) and disparage him. He forbade her but she did not stop. He rebuked her but she did not give up her habit. One night she began to...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (ﷺ) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
AbuBarzah said: I was with AbuBakr. He became angry at a man and uttered hot words. I said: Do you permit me, Caliph of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), that I cut off his neck? These words of mine removed...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Urainah’ came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and found Madinah unhealthy. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered them to go to the camels (of the sadaqah) and ordered them to drink some of...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
So he (the prophet) order nails to be heated and had them blinded with them, and he had their hands and feet cut off, and did not cauterise them to stop the flow of blood.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent some people who were experts in tracking in pursuit of them and they were brought (to him). Allah , the Exalted, then revealed the verse about it : “ The punishment of those who...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Anas said : I saw one of them biting the earth with this mouth (teeth) on account of thirst and this they died.
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
He then forbade disfiguring. This version does not mention the words “ from opposite sides” . This tradition has been narrated by Shu’bah from Qatadah and Salam bin Miskin from Thabit on the authority of Anas. They did not mention...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
Some people raided the camels of the Prophet (ﷺ), drove them off, and apostatised. They killed the herdsman of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who was a believer. He (the Prophet) sent (people) in pursuit of them and they were...
Sunan Abi Dawud
Prescribed Punishments (Kitab Al-Hudud)
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cut off (the hands and feet of) those who had stolen his camels and he had their eyes put out by fire (heated nails), Allah reprimanded him on that (action), and Allah, the Exalted,...